BA (Hons) Melbourne; DPhil Oxford Since February 2023, Joy has been the Course Director for the Bachelor of Arts, a role which builds on a career-long commitment to the arts and humanities in her teaching, research, and professional activities. From 2009 to 2016, Joy was Associate Dean Learning and Teaching in the Faculty of Arts at Charles Sturt University. During that time, she built extensive expertise in governance through three terms on Academic Senate and the membership and chairing of several Senate working parties on academic policy and procedures. Nationally, she was a member of the committee that established the Network of Associate Deans Learning and Teaching, under the auspices of the Deans of Arts, Social Sciences and Humanities (DASSH). She chaired the network for four years: significant achievements were a successful OLT grant ($208,000) for research into first year curriculum in the humanities, and the first- ever national conference on the Bachelor of Arts. Joy teaches across the literary curriculum with a focus on writing and gender. She enjoys teaching First Year and was for many years responsible for foundation subjects in English Literature for English Major students. She has also designed and taught First Year writing and literacy subjects for Communication and Education students. Her strong interest in links between writing and gender has been evident in Australian literature subjects and in broader cultural; studies approaches to the theme. Joy is committed to preserving the study of earlier texts and is proud of the fact that Charles Sturt University has retained the commitment to the teaching of earlier literature forged in the early days of Mitchell College of Advanced Education in Bathurst. She has recently refreshed the study of Medieval and Early Modern literature through the design of a new subject,’ Reading the Past into the Present’ She has also revitalised Romanticism studies in literature by the design of a new subject, ‘Romanticism: (R)evolution of the Self’. In each case, the link between writing and gender is a key strategy for helping students to understand the ongoing relevance of earlier literature to the texts that are made today. Joy values research supervision and supervises several doctoral students. She has supervised six doctoral students and many Honours students to successful completion. During her time as Associate Dean, Joy focused on research into the Scholarship of Learning and Teaching (SOTL). The OLT grant, led by Associate Professor Theda Thomas, ACU) on First Year curricula in the humanities resulted in several collaborative publications, including scholarly articles and Good Practice Guides for teaching. Since returning to a teaching and research position, Joy has focused on literary research with a focus on Australian women writers. She has a long-standing commitment to promoting the work of the renowned Australian text and multi-media artist, Hazel Smith and has published several articles, most recently in Electronic Book Review, February 2023.She has co-published several articles on the distinguished Australian poet, Judith Wright. Another major interest in the link between war and gender, seen in a recent co-edited publication of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA), Current projects include the building of a digital archive, housed by Charles Strut University Library, of the works of Hazel Smith, and a co-edited book based on War, Gender and Reflective Australia. Journal of the Independent Scholars Association of Australia (ISAA), Vol. 17, No. 2, and Vol. 18. No.1, 2021:
Teaching and Research Staff
Dr Joy Wallace
Senior Lecturer in English
Bathurst
Mansfield Building 1411, Room 322